And surveys showing young Britons are far more likely than baby boomers to think paid parental leave should be divided between a mother and father. Yet again the numbers showed that men earn more than women on average, often by a whopping margin. Men are not just fed up in the US, the only country in the developed world that does not require companies to offer paid parental leave to either mothers or fathers. When Aviva, the British insurer, started offering men the same parental leave as women last year, nearly half the UK-based staff who took time off in the first 10 months of the scheme were men. Something else should also be clear by now: a lot of men will be much happier.

Source: The Irish Times April 08, 2019 04:07 UTC